Engineering Manager

Meet the Moment with Alteryx

We're living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how work gets done. Data, automation, and AI are quickly becoming the center of every business decision - and Alteryx is leading the transformation.

You'll be working on the challenges that sit at the heart of modern business. No matter your role, the work you do will help organizations move faster, clearly, and tackle questions that used to feel impossible.

If you're ready to meet the moment with innovation, curiosity, and excellence, there's a place for you here.

Engineering Manager

Role Summary

The Engineering Manager is the typical entry point for people management in engineering at Alteryx. This role is accountable for delivering results through others rather than through individual contribution. The Engineering Manager leads a single team or a small group of related engineering teams, builds a healthy and inclusive team environment, and translates product and engineering strategy into reliable execution.

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership

Directly manages a single team or a few related small (2-5) engineering teams of individual contributors ranging from Associate Engineers (P1) up to Lead Engineers (P4).

Owns hiring, onboarding, performance management, compensation, promotion, and growth plans for individual contributors.

Structures roles within teams to optimize for productivity, career development, and delivery against team priorities.

Fosters a healthy, productive, inclusive, and psychologically safe team environment.

Coaches engineers on execution, collaboration, and technical decision-making.

Execution and Delivery

Owns delivery, quality, and predictability for the team's commitments.

Translates product and engineering strategy into actionable execution plans and priorities.

Manages team capacity, execution risks, and day-to-day tradeoffs to reliably deliver on time.

Ensures strong operational hygiene across planning, estimation, retrospectives, tech debt management, and quality practices.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Contributes input into product and technical discussions within the team's scope.

Builds trust with product and cross-functional partners through reliable execution.

Represents the team's needs, risks, and insights upward.

Focuses primarily on depth of impact within the team.

Technical Leadership

Provides tactical technical guidance and oversight for the team's work.

Reviews designs and implementation approaches to ensure quality, maintainability, and alignment with standards.

Partners closely with senior individual contributors on technical decisions and tradeoffs.

Ensures the team follows sound engineering practices and addresses technical debt.

Maintains enough technical depth to challenge decisions and support the team effectively.

Required Qualifications

6+ years leading delivery of complex, multi-system initiatives.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Demonstrated success as a senior individual contributor or technical lead.

Experience directly leading engineers, formally or informally.

Proven ability to deliver high-quality software through others.

Strong foundation in people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, and performance management.

Solid technical background relevant to the team's domain.

Ability to plan, prioritize, and execute within defined scope.

Required Technical Skills

Multi-cluster Kubernetes

GitOps (ArgoCD and/or Flux)

Infrastructure as Code governance

SLO/SLA management

Chaos engineering

Disaster recovery and business continuity planning

Secret rotation

Security hardening

Compensation:

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as your relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

The salary range for this role in the United States is $137,000 - $177,000.

Employees may also be eligible for a wide range of other benefits, such as a bonus or commission, medical, retirement, financial, wellness, time off, employee discounts, and others.

Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences .

Benefits & Perks:

Alteryx has amazing benefits for all Associates which can be viewed here .

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Alteryx will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.